Sen. Cornyn and Sen. Hutchison talk fiscal cliff on the Senate floor

“Everybody in America is pretty much talking about the fiscal cliff, ” said outgoing Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison earlier this week.

The issue of fiscal cliff will have to be resolved- either short or long term – during the lame duck session of the 112th Congress, since the Bush era tax cuts expire at the end of this year.

“We can stop this fiscal cliff. We can work together to find solution,” Hutchison said on the Senate floor this week. “We can answer the calls of the American people who have said clearly, loudly and repeatedly, “Get together and make things happen!””

She continued to praise the gang of six and the gang of eight, who have previously attempted to come up with bipartisan proposals as to how to avoid the fiscal cliff.

And just yesterday, Sen. John Cornyn gave his own speech on fiscal cliff on the Senate floor.

“A truly balanced approach would include reining in federal spending and preserving and protecting Social Security and Medicare. It should include I think as a matter of political reality revenue, and our side of the aisle has identified ways that additional revenue might be put on the table, but that’s simply not enough by itself to address the whole problem and is an unserious proposal in terms of solving the complex economic situation we find ourselves in. There is nothing balanced, though, about continuing to spend money we don’t have and piling up trillions of dollars in new debt.”

In his speech, Sen. Cornyn also stressed that the mandate comes with responsibility, saying, “If the president’s going to claim a mandate for governing, then he has the responsibility to offer a genuine solution to America’s fiscal challenges.”

Hutchison and Cornyn are not the only Texas elected official to use their time on the floor of the congress to speak of the issues.

“If we are to have an act of congress, we have to have a congress willing to act, ” said Rep. Al Green, earlier this week on the House floor. “It is time for us to act to protect the least, the last, the lost as well as others.”

Cornyn and Hutchison’s replacement, Ted Cruz, also took to twitter to share their thoughts on this issue with their followers.